Many on line shops such as Amazon give you the option to leaf through a book before you actually get it, as if you were in a bookshop: you can see the cover, read some excerpts and have a look at the illustrations.

Booglesworld is a great website where you can find plenty of materials to improve your English. We have already used a handout from bogglesworld to learn how to talk about films. Now I will add a set of word documents you can download and print. We shall work with them in class. They will help you to write excellent book reports. There are “samples” and “templates”.

Print the set and keep them together in a plastic folder. Take them to class next week. After using them, I would appreciate your feedback. Send your comments to the blog.

Setting cloze (5)

Setting and characters (6)

Heroes and Villains (7)

Last week we spent a session looking at the different parts of a book and at the information displayed: author, publisher, table of contents, ISBN, glossary, illustrator, index.

this excellent presentation made by Tiger Creek Elementary will help you revise the concepts we learnt . The presentation includes two examples of children books with no labels for you to name the different parts of a book.

After watching the presentation, do this on line test to check how good you are at identifying the parts of a book